Stanley Plumly facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Stanley Plumly
Plumly in 2013
Born	(1939-05-23)May 23, 1939 Barnesville, Ohio, U.S.
Died	April 11, 2019(2019-04-11) (aged 79) Frederick, Maryland, U.S.
Occupation	Professor
Language	English
Alma mater	Wilmington College Ohio University
Genre	Poetry
Spouse	Margaret (Forian) Plumly

Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program.

Plumly grew up in Ohio and Virginia and was educated at Wilmington College in Ohio and at Ohio University. He taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped found the Ohio Review. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland.

Plumly died of multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age of 79.

Honors

• Poet Laureate for the State of Maryland
• Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, 2015
• John William Corrington Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature, 2010
• Beall Award in Biography from PEN, 2009
• Paterson Poetry Prize, 2008
• LA Times Book Prize, 2008
• Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award, 1972
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Award
• Pushcart Prize on six occasions
• Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence

Fellowships

• Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
• Ingram-Merrill Fellowship
• 1973 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship on three occasions
• 1991 poet in residence at The Frost Place